Nicholas Rule "Phobias"
Dinter Fine Art
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Rule paints words, families of words, naming words. (In the past, he has worked with genealogies and “bloodlines.”) These are rendered in elegant freehand applications of translucent India inks, brushed on in layers, which can drip down the face of the picture plane—or seem to dissolve altogether into atmospheric immateriality.
For Rule, the breakdown of language and meaning is as important as its assertion. This series, “Phobias,” borrows its lexicon from psychology. In a new turn for the artist, Rule executes the works in white-on-black, the designations of specific anxieties appearing and disappearing into a matte velvety half-light. (A viewer has the sensation of seeing a thought momentarily form in ionized space.) The conceptual gives way to the sensual. It’s almost a landscape. But that reading would take the paintings too far from the real.
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from April 16, 2009 to May 30, 2009